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They're charging teens more?? The people who earn the least if any at all... is there a special teens services that I'm not aware of?

And who asked for tipping besides drivers? Hate the concept. Charge us more or split the fare with them better.

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The Uber driver in my neighborhood complained that the teens call up the cab to go 2 or 4 blocks. They are trying to emulate their parents and seam like a baler to their friends.

They need to raise the minimum fare for that then. Making teens pay more seems ridiculous to me.

I don't know if that is the cause of it; it's just one data point I heard (last year).

I'm actually curious what drove the increase. Since they are still in cost undercutting and competing mode I doubt it's just "because they can". I wonder if it has anything to do with economics (higher insurance rate) or what. According to this article: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/uber-drivers-sound-alarm-teen-...

"Uber says teen rides will only be booked with experienced drivers who have received consistently positive reviews."

So maybe the pool of drivers is smaller for teen accounts.

Also, teen accounts are not teens paying for it. But an account a parent can designate for the teen and they pay for it.

Drivers have to retain a 4.5 star rating to remain drivers I thought. I think that's a good enough bar. But I guess understandable if they're limiting to 4.9s+

It would be a good business model, like women can request women only would be a premium.

Age discrimination: still just fine in America.

Forget allowing "age discrimination": You'd be hard-pressed to find a legal code in the world that doesn't _codify_ "age discrimination" when it comes to the adult/child line. It's honestly stretching the term beyond its common usage to include the child/adult line.

Well, a legal code can both codify discrimination against children in some specific contexts, and broadly ban it in others. (It's true, the term "age discrimination" has been coopted to refer to discrimination against older people.)

For example this NYC law bans a category of discrimination against children: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/04/nyregion/new-york-to-bar-a.... I wonder if it's broad enough to challenge the Uber policy?

How do teens pay for Uber rides? Surely children aren't eligible for credit cards in the US?

I think teens are allowed to have debit cards in the US now (it wasn't that way when I was a teenager). They also can be added as an authorized user to an adult's credit card account, which gives them their own card in their name.

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